Shan Lou

Dr. Shan Lou is employed as a Research Follow working within the Surface Metrology Group (SMG) of Centre for Precision Technologies (CPT) and ERSRC Future Metrology Hub from 2013. He is currently carrying out research in the field of geometrical measurement and evaluation for precision engineering.

Shan received his BEng and MEng at Central South University (China) in 2002 and 2006 respectively. Then he started his professional career in dimensional metrology at Hexagon Metrology, a leading global company for metrology industry. He worked as a software developer for the company’s primary product, PC-DMIS and other softwares for portable measurement devices, e.g. Romer Arms, Leica Tracker.

In 2010, Shan moved to University of Huddersfield to pursue a PhD degree whilst working for Hexagon Metrology on a part-time basis. His project titled “Discrete Algorithms for Morphological Filters in Geometrical Metrology” was completed in May 2013 and led to the development of the novel and competent algorithms for morphological filtering on freeform surfaces, which have been published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A and other leading journals.

Shan is a committee Member of the British Standard Institution (BSI) TDW/4/4/1 (XCT) and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Outside the work Shan enjoys playing badminton and is the faithful fan of FC Internazionale Milano.

His research of interest is in precision geometrical metrology, including surface metrology in microscale and nanoscale and dimensional metrology in macroscale. Currently he focuses on the investigation and development of mathematical principles and algorithms involved with the measurement and evaluation of geometrical elements (such as surface texture, topography and form) for state-of-the-art high-precision products within the high-added value manufacture, especially components with freeform surface and structured surface, e.g. modern complex optic elements, bio-system products, turbine blade and gear tooth. The aim is to build a toolbox for the analysis, evaluation and characterisation of geometrical elements using fast, stable and reliable computational algorithms.

Recently he has initialised the exploration of the surface characterisation for additively manufactured components and X-ray computed tomography (XCT) metrology, taking the collaboration of the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) and the Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC).

Particular Areas of Research

• Filtration and segmentation techniques for freeform surfaces and structured surfaces
• Metrology for additive manufacturing
• XCT metrology

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